Sumit Kala

Sr Staff Engineer @Illumio

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Technical Lead | Data Pipeline Engineering | Cloud Infrastructure | Team Management | System Reliability & Observability1. Led a cross-functional team, fostering collaborative development practices and mentoring junior developers2. Optimized and maintained enterprise-scale data pipelines, ensuring 99.9% uptime and processing terabytes of data daily3. Planned and executed migration from self-hosted Postgres Citus to Azure Cosmos DB, leveraging managed service benefits including automatic scaling, built-in security, and 99.99% SLA4. Contributed to migration of legacy monolithic applications to containerized Kubernetes deployments, reducing infrastructure costs and improving deployment frequency5. Built comprehensive observability stack with custom dashboards, alerting systems, and SLI/SLO monitoring6. Designed proactive alerting mechanisms that reduced mean time to resolution (MTTR) from hours to minutes7. Served as primary technical contact for urgent customer escalations involving pipeline downtime, delivering rapid resolution and post-incident improvements across hybrid cloud infrastructureAI/ML Innovation Projects1. Designed LLM-powered synthetic data generation framework for major security exploits, leveraging Illumio SDK to simulate complex attack patterns.2. Implemented AI-powered knowledge retrieval system using RAG architecture to extract insights from historical JIRA issues and exception logs, enabling faster root cause analysis and resolution.

Savitribai Phule Pune University

B.E, Electrical Engineering

Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

M.Tech, Computer Science